I needed red earrings for a chorus performance. Hm. I went through my stash and found sparkly red beads, wire, and ear hooks.
Photo description: one long earring strung with red crystal beads, with the second earring parts including the silver wire, beads, ear hook, and pliers
I bent the end of the wire into a very small loop, strung on the beads, and made a larger loop that connected to the ear hook. Simple, sparkly, red.
It is a little startling to be singing along at chorus practice, inside, and have a wasp land on your flower tattoo. I walked it outside and blew it off my arm before going back to rehearsal.
Photo description: wasp on my arm near the silk moth my black and white floral tattoo celebrating fiber sources
A testament to the skill of my tattoo artist, I guess!
One of my friends enjoys painting and has quite a flair for it. She had painted rocks at the chorus craft fair and I just had to buy the one that looked like Wing Ding! And then take a picture of Wing Ding with her effigy.
Photo description: Wing Ding the Black Star hen in molt standing behind the painted rock with a black chicken that I’m holding. Painting by Corinna Standlee.
I was only able to get three swatches from my Tencel sample, knitted, crocheted, and woven. I wove this swatch on a Clover mini loom, with the warp doubled. To finish it I ran the warp back up through the weft passes. I like the edge the method makes, but I don’t like how wonky this piece came out.
Photo description: plain weave swatch made on a Clover mini loom with three ply hand spun Tencel yarnPhoto description: same woven swatch after blocking, but still wonky
I’m going to blame the spin on this one.
P.S. Sorry if you received this post twice by email. I usually schedule my posts about three days out, and I hit the wrong button, tried to retract it, and put it on the proper schedule. I wasn’t fast enough and the email went out. It bothered me to have this series of posts out of order, so I fixed it for the blog, but those emails may have a duplicate or not resend. Ah, technology.